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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10
Another "Corker."

EDS. REcoRD-UNIoN: Under the heading
of New Industries in Jour issue of Fri
day, find some statements which seem to
me to require verifcatIon. Your CORE
spondent must have served an apprentice
ship in Southern California before under
taking to boom the Redding section, or
possibly is a "tenderfoot," who has been
used as "stool-pigeon." The establish
meut of the "apiary' may be all right, and
also the cultivation of twenty acres of
Newfoundland the busy bees may gather
honey-but why does the producer get
why does the New York druggist" offer
Fifty cents per pound for the next twenty
five years" when prime, extracted Los
Angeles honey can be bought for nine
cents? l would suggest to the gentleman"
that he now intersperse some tar weed
amongst his hOrehound, and he can then
bottle his crop on the ranch, label it honey
of horehound and tar and sell it for cough
medicine. This same man. is growing
bergamot and making oil OF bergamol"
right in the same county. The plant COM
monty called bergamot is one of the mint
family-MenthG ciTdtG-and does not Weld
oil of bergamot, which is a product from
one of the citrus family-CitruS limetta If
the gentleman is successfully producing
the latter it is an item which should re-
ceive notice from every paper interested in
booming this section. The article reads
like the preliminary skirmishing of a new
patent medicine concern. SUBSCRIBER.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10

Woman's Work is,the name of a new
journal published at Athens, Ga. 1t is
edited by Mrs. Ella r. Tennent, and devot-
ed to domestic economy. The paper is is
sued in quarto form of 16 pages, and the
initial number is good specimen of a
standard family journal. It is published
monthly, at fifty cents year.
Felix Gillet, proprietor of the Barren
Hill Nurseries, Nevada City, has issued
another illustrated and descriptive cata-
logue of nuts, prunes and fruit trees. 1t
will be especially valuable to those inter
ested in nut trees.
The weekly Pioneer, edited by E. w
Pierce and published at Turlock, in the
San joaquin valley, is one of the new pa
pers recently launched upon the sea of Cal
ifornia journalism. It is four page paper
of five columns each, and presents matters
of local interest, as well as general news,
in bright and attractive form.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10
A MATTER OF DECENCY.

The Mayor OF Lebanon, Ia, IS endeav-
oring to suppress profanity upon the
streets, and he is right in his endeayor
The error into which those fall who de-
nounce him, is the assumption that he is
proceeding against offenders for blasphemy.
This is wholly mistake. He is acting in
the interests of decency only, not of re-
ligion. Profanity is vulgar, and it is I'M
lawful to use vulgar language in the hear
ing of one or more persons. A half dozen
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10

FROM this time until the two National
Conventions shall have met and adjourned
the American people are to be involved in
all the perplexing anxiety that precedes
the making of Presidential nominations.
We begin to make Presidents too early
and take time by too long forelock in
this matter. This will be strikingly and,
we fear, damagingly illustrated in the first
half of the year 1888. Because of I'M
certainty as to whether the Democracy
will indorse Mr.. Cleveland's tariff policy,
every vocation and industry touched by
the tariff viii be timorous, unsettled and
feverish. The great majority of the peo-
pie of the nation will turn to the Repub-
lican party for protection from what they
believe is the assault of policy that will
be injurious to the production, labor and
manufactures in the United States. The
party is not, it is true, unit upon the
tariff question. Some of its eminent men
and old-time apostles are not protectionists.
Whether they will cut themselves off from
utilization with the party because of its
protective tendencies, an1 go over to the
Democracy, for which they were born with
rooted aversion, remains to be seen. But
the lines are now being sharply drawn,
and we will not have long to wait for
massing of forces The Democracy, we
believe, will drop Mr.. Cleveland no matter
how it may be pledged to his Administra-
ton. Mr.. Carlisle will probably be unable
to deliver according to the bargain he is
supposed to have made, and the party will
be very likely to take up man who at
least has not expressed himself so posi-
lively as has the courageous Mr.. Cleve
land. Its past history gives warrant for
this belief, for it has been one of cowardice.
Upon platform looking in two directions
it will endeavor to make campaign for
the retention of power, and regardless of
any other results. On the other hand,
the Republican party will, in all likeli-
hood, declare in June next for protection
in an unmistakable manner, and make its
fight for recovery of the Government upon
that issue, with the Freedman's political
protection as merely supplemental cam
paign agency.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10
ro-Davs LEADING NEWS TOPICS.

There Is no longer doubt as to Lamars con
fiImation.
The Republican Committee has issued its call
for National Convention.
Senator Stanford proposes an amendment to
the naturalization laws.
Foreign paupers are crawling into the United
States by way of Canada.
Goblet has abandoned the attempt to form a
French Cabinet.
John L. Sullivan gave pugilistic exhibition
before the Prince of Wales last night.
There is vast accumulation OF railroad
freight at ogden.
l. S. Kalioch ex-Msyor Of San Francisco. died
yesterday at Whatcom, W. T.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10

W. R: Strong < Co., fruit shippers, street, be.
tween Front and Second.
Gregory & Barnes, fruit shippers, J street, be-
tween Front and Second
Curtis Bros. & Co., fruit dealers, sos to SO K
street.
S. Gerson & Co., fruit shippers, street, be-
tween Second and Third.
Huntington, Hopkins & Co., K street, between
Second and Third
a: S. Hopkins & Bro, wood and willow ware
dealers, street, between Third and Fourth.
Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson, stove dealers,
street between Second and Third
Richards & Knox, lumber dealers, Second
street. between L and NJ
Friend & Terry Lumber Company, Second
street, between NJ and N
Sacramento Lumber Company, Second street,
between L and NJ.
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GAN FRANCISCO AGENCIES.

The paper is for sale at the following places
h. P. Fisher, Room II. Merchants Exchange,
STho Ia also sole Advertising Agent for San
francisco: Grand and Palace Hotel News
Glands; Msrket-street Ferry and junction OF
Hsrket and Montgomery street News STANDS.
So Also, for sale on ill Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10

The RECORD UNION is the only paper on
the coast, outside Of San Francisco, that re-
oeires the full associated Press dispatches from
ell parts Of the 10orLd. Outside Of San Fran
cisco it his no competitor, in point of mum
bers. in its home and general circulation
throughout fhe coast.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10

Delegate Joseph, of New Mexico, says;
New Mexico would be better off to-day
were she freed from the interference of the
military authorities. We are well able to
protect ourselves from the depredations of
Indians, but cannot very well fight both
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10

The Importance of purifying the blood can
not be- oyerestimated, for without pure
blood you cannot enjoy good health.
At this season nearly every one needs a
good medicine to purify, vitalize, and enrich
the blood, and Hoods Sarsaparilla is worthy
your confidence. 1t is peculiar in that it
strengthens and builds up the system, creates
an appetite, and tones the digestion, while
it eradicates disease. Give it a trial.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is sold byall druggists.
Prepared by c. l. Hood & Co., Lowell Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10

Mrs. America Davidson, niece of Gen.
eral Jackson, is in degtituts circumstances
IN Virginia.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10
DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT.

grand sges Ladies' Cloth
We have 200 these fine Remnants
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10
CHANGED DALEY FOR c. H. eILAAS-DEcEMBER 10, 1882.
TODAY!
SPECIAL SALE OF
Remnants and Other Lines!

In the past two weeks we have accumulated
q large quantity of REMNANTS Mn and ODDS AND
have room for our HOLIDAY GOODS. This is
why we will cut the price and close them out at
low figures TO-DAY,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10
DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT.

Remnants of Linens Crashes Muslns
and Scarlet Fannes Plaid Fanns Tickngs
Odds and Tides
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10
Wholesale lobbing, Commission al
Manufacturing Houses.

Interior merchants will find it greatly to their
advantage to purchase supplies of the following
firms
T. NJ. Iindley & Co.. grocers, K street. between
Second and Third.
VIII Wood ( Co. fruit shippers ] street, be-
tween Front and Second.
J. F. Hill. Pacific Wheel and Carriage Works !:
factory, 1901 to 1928 street; repository, 1912
and IQ14 Second street,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-04-06
HOW NOVEL WHITING PAYS.
Securing a Publisher is One Thing, s..
curing sales is Quito Another.

cuEAhB sSAAeS - Auibe ahoLicE'
Getting books published is one thing;
getting them sold is quite another. Little
as Trollope made by his first literary ven
tures. he probably made more than his
publishers. They were not success be-
cause the public refused to buy them, and
if Trollope had not been man of dogged
resolution he would have given in long
before the tide turned. 1t by no means
follows, however, that every one who per
severes with equal resolution will be
equally successful, or, indeed, achieve any
success at all; for though by practice a
man may acquire the k:lack of writing
readable English, no amount of pcrsever-
ance, without imagination, will mako a
novelist
1t is true that some writers appear to
succeed Mt the first attempt. Like By
ron, they waken and find themselves fam
Gus. These instances are. however, very
few, and when careful inquisition is
made it viii generally be found that there
was previous preparation, and that sue
cess was preceded by failure. Charlotte
Brontc- sprung at bound into the first
rank of living novclists; but her great
natural gifts had been assiduously culti-
waited for years, From her very child
hood she had been studying tho art of
fiction and writing works of imagination.
The late Hugh Conway is another in
stance of the same sort, though his genius
was of far inferior order. His "Called
Back took the country by storm and
created q rage for shilling horrors; which
is cnly now beginning to subside. Yet,
though Called Back" was the first work
he published, it was not by long way
the first he wrote. He must have had
quite large stock on hand; two, I think,
have been published since his death; and
know publisher who refused one of
Hugh Conway's stories years before the
public heard of his existence.
1t would thus appear that to profit by
authorship, in the ordinary sense of the
word, something more is required than a
mere shutting of the eyes and an opening
of the mouth. There must be special
aptitude, patience, perseverance and in
dustry. These. with a love of literature
for its own sake, will probably be srlfff-
cient In ordinary circumstances to insure
fair measure of success. Brilliant sue
cess and enduring fame are for genius
alone, and the man who hopes to make a
fortune by his pen must be sanguine in
deed. True, Scott did great things in
that way. Dickens accumulated $780,
900 (and killed himself in the effort) and
Trollope sold for $4,000 apiece novels
that he wrote in two months
But it is not every novelist that pos
sesses the genius of Dickens or the fertil-
ity of Trolope, and there is at present
probably not one English writer who can
command the prices that he readily OBJ
tanned. More novels are now written
than ever, and the average price paid to
authors has suffered woful diminution.
have been told that when The London
Graphic began its prosperous career, its
proprietors paid as much as So, 500 for
the serial rights of its long stories. They
now seldom pay more than third of that
sum.-The Cosmopolitan.
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The unseen rorce. of Nnturo.

Nature is ever undoing what she has
already done. ever pulling her own work
to pieces, as though dissatisfied with it,
and wishing to build it up anew. She
brings flowers, frees, men and women into
existence, tends them with loving care,
brings them to maturity, and consigns
them to decay. The sun rises tothc zenith,
only to sink again beneath the horizon.
Winter melts into spring, af.d spring into
summer; but summer passes into autumn,
and autumn into winter again. And so
it is with greater things as well. Tho
earth upon which VIC live had its Begin
ming; can we doubt that it also nlnst meet
its end2 Even as we pass our little day
upon it we can see it change before our
eyes, viewing, as it were, but one short
scene in the mighty drama upon which
the curtain must fall at last. Forces, AMI
mate and inanimate. are over at work
above, below and around us. Islands nro
raised from the sea; mountains open and
belch forth their fiery torrents upon the
country for miles around; floods perform
their work CT destruction; glaciers move
slowly onward, and sweep hamlets and
villages away. And the unseen forces of
nature are working as surely end as stead
lily as the seen. That ''V'e die daily is
no mere figure of speech; at every breath
we cast off part of our substance, efTeto
matter from which the life has departed.
And the earth dies daily, too.-Tieolore
Wood in Sunday Marazine
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restine DrinI,ing vater.

DIR. Riabinin of Tchuguey recommends
testing drinking water by adding eight
to fifteen drops of solution of nitrate of
silver Zone grain of the salt to half ounce
of distilled or boiled water) to a glassful
of water under examination. Nitrate of
silver decomposes chlorides and gives a
white precipitate of chloride of silver and
at the same time precipitates all proteids
dissolved in water. If the precipitate
be tritfing, proportionate to the silver
solution added, its surface smooth, color
purely and equally white and falls to the
bottom of the vessel rapidly, the water is
good. IF the precipitate is considerable
the water contains organic matter; the
more considerable the precipitate Gin pro-
portion to the solution of silver addcd) the
worse tho water. If the surface shows
threadlike or fccky processes and is gray
in color, the water is bad, A blue dis
coloration in the water (caused by the
chloride of silver combining with am
monia) points to the presence of decom-
posing vegetable matter; the more blue
the worse is the latter. a black precipi-
tate shows decomposing products of ami
NAL matter. Sun rays or even strong
daylight should be avoided during ex-
animation. a violet discoloration. with
out any preceding blue, takes place in
any water; the earlier this violet discolor-
alton takes place the better the water ex-
amlned.- News.
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An interesting contribution, the discus
sion of the domestic service problem, is
given by our correspondent from New
Mexico. We think the working women
cn the east cannot know that in New
Mexico domestic servants are paid $50 a
month, with board and home in addition.
and cannot be obtained even for these
large wages. The native Mexicans sup
ply about the only servants to be had
there, and they are so unfamiliar with
American methods of housekeeping and
withal are so indolent and careless that
their service isfar from satisfactory. The
pride which keeps the native American at
respectable" work in the east at 50 or
SO a week, it would seem, would disap-
pear before the temptation of an oppor-
tunity to earn $3.50 year, most of which
could be saved, as the home is furnished
IN addition to the money wages.-Phila-
delphia Press.
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a KANSAS QUAIL HUNT.
A spnrtsman's Experiences on Bright
Frosty Dscember Morning.

a SpnrtSman's experiences on Bright
Frosty Deeember Morning.
Seven years ago friend called ON me
one bright, frosty December morning.
BE had his dog and gun with him. He
wanted to hunt q distant field where
ground was the best IN the country, and
/ Ideclinetl 70 60 seven miles to shoot over
strange ground. We decided to hunt a
low lying creek bottom, ON which plum
bushes grew, and which was close TO
cornfelGs. Ny friend had urgent need
for forty birds.
Sam, ~ said, sswhen forty birds are
killed we viii stop shooting.
Forty gIandmoth others, he remarked
81 mean it, ? said. I'VE VIII get
them before we get through this plum
patch, , which was about quarter of n
mile long, and which lined both banks of
the creek. crossed the creek, called
my eager dog back. pulled her ear, and
said, $50 ahead, and 60 slow" She
worked steadily at aslov trot. Suddenly
she turned and stood, with twisted head
and uplifted foot and horizontal tail,
gazing into dense clump of bushes. /
whistled warningly to my friend. and
then flushed tho birds. and missed with
both barrels Tie covey WAS exceeSl-
insls large birtls 1cgv into al open
space of am acre, where tho grass was
about foot high, and there scattered
widely. About the same time my friend S
dog, a leadstrong, stupid pointer, flushed
covey, and they crossed the creek and
also. beckoned him. BE crossed the
creek, and wished to advance at once to
the sport.
II L..
I don't like to say anything against your
dog. BE is tho best prairie chicken dog
ever saw, but hc is lunkhead on quail
Tic him up. Let Queen beat this grass
for US and we will get the forty birds. -
My friend was indignant. But coaxed
him into tying his dog to a plum bush.
No walked slowly to tho grass. There 1
took Queen 8 soft ear in my hand. pinched
it slightly and said: .'Be careful. G.
slow, - and cuffed her gently.
The intelligent dog began to beat u :,
ground. Ny friend shot to the right aId
l to the left. What hunt that wasi Tho
dog worked slowly and beautifully. The
birds lay to her well. Her face glowed
with pleasure. The shooting was sutfi-
GENTLY brisk to keep tho guns warm. The
lunkhead pointer howied his disapproval.
We shot the grass patch over in twenty
five minutes. Each marked down his
dead birds as well MS he could, and kept
count OF the number. The last bird up
and killed, / turned to my friend, and
with an inquirinS lift of my eyebrows
said: ..Well!''
II have twenty-seven down, he Ie-
riied.
..And I have twenty-three. - said.
BE loosened his dog and cried: dead
birds, dead birds!''
Tho two dogs, envious of each other,
worked as nailers arc alleged to work,
and brought in bird after Lird until forty
three quail were in our bags. The other
seven were probably winged, and escaped
by bong and fast running. never had
b.It cn9 more enjoyable hunt than that. -
Frank Wilkeson in New York Sun.
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4 cur,ons rreall or Nntnrn.

In the early history of southwestern
Pennsylvania, In somerset county, and
not far from the Maryland line, an emil
grant pitched his tent one night on the
banks of the Turkeyfoot river, a tributary
of the Youghiogheny, a beautiful noun
tain stream. The occurrence was early
In the present century and was not an un-
c Jmmon affair, but what followed In the
ong years that have since passed is the
wonder and admiration of all who have
b .held it.
The family in question was doubtless
in search Of suitable site for a future
home, and dreamed of no Il ere the time
Of that encampment. During their tenn
porary halt one of their dear children
was stricken down and buried in lonely
and uninhabited spot in the little valley
1t is supposed they (the parehts} planted
six small yellow poplars-three ON each
side of the grave-to make the resting
place of their darling child. Years passed
and the poplars grew, and to-lsy they
may be seen by the traveller as one und'-
vided and solid trunk to tho height If
about seven feet, where they divide shd
are known for miles around as 't1lle Six
Poplars." These bodies are of nearly
equal size, being each about two fest in
diameter and about 100 feet to tho low
est limbs, straight and clear of knots. In
the vacuum at the place of separation
there remains a rude stone. which marks
the date of burial and the name of de-
ceased. The land has been cleared of
other timber, but that trce-=or trees
stands alone some distance from any
habitation.-Albert Cotton IN Waterloo
News.
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The Franco-G German war in 1870
brought about the reform IN war cores
pondence. At the commencement of hos
iIities was at Spicteren, a small town
ON the border of those two countries. The
town was held by q small body of GeTmau
soldiers and On the neighboring heights
was lzrge army of Frenchmen, In case
they attacked the town we had determined
to run. There is the comical as well as
the tragic side always In war, and both
these elements we experienced at Spie-
teren. A young German girl had CONS
to say good by to her lover, a sergeant in
the small detachment. Eome of US Sen<
ceived the idea that they should be mar
for the soldier and granted on condition
that at the first sound Of the alarm he
should be back at his post.
The ceremony commenced, and Just as
the clergyman came 10 the mpertans
part the bugle sounded the alarm. The
French had commenced the attack.
Hastily buckling ON his belt the soldier
ran TO his post Shot and she'll burst
over tho town and one crashed into thsf
kitchen stove and destroyed the wedding
breakfast. We all hastily retired to
another town a few miles or. That night
was stin again. and va. lleternlined not ti
be done out OF our lreading s. we fourd
the soldier and girl, aad next day they
were married. Next daS the battlo was
renewed and the French were repnlsed.
Wandering over the field among the
killed and trying to assist The wounded.
came across tho bridegroom, stone dead.
He was shot through tho throat. In his
hand he held picture of his young bride.
stained with his ifc,s blood.-London
Cor. New York NJ ani Express,
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A Town He1d i'm Pawn.

It may not be generally known that the
little seaport town of Wismar. in the
Baltic, is virtually in the same position as
Montague Tgg's shirt-namely, at the
pawnbroker'se 1t was in 1903, that
Sweden pawned the town to the Ducly
of Mecklenburg for round sum OF
money. 1t was then stipulated that the
town should be restored to Sweden at Tie
end of a century, provided the sum lent,
together with interest, were paid back to
Mecklenburg.
This sum is now said to amount to sew
eral hundred million marks, and appar-
emily there is little chance of Wismar be
ing able to pay it at the date fixed. This
singular treaty has lain dormant in the
archives of the municipality ever since II
was made up to the other day, when
apropos of the concession of some land to
the customs authorities, it was exhu1ned
for legal purposes. Mall Gazette.